Programme Quality Assurance Officer Mary’s Meals Zambia

PROGRAMME QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER

Mary’s Meals is a global movement focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in their place of education currently supporting over 2.4 million children globally and over 600,000 children in Zambia. We believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. We are fully committed to a culture of safeguarding and our safe recruitment practices ensure that only those that are committed to our high standards join our movement. We are delighted to be recruiting for;

Mary’s Meals Zambia is looking for suitable person to fill the role of the Quality Assurance Officer

Directorate: Programmes

Reporting to: Programme Quality Assurance Lead

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Kasama – Northern Province

Role purpose

This role is vital to ensuring that our School Feeding Programme is working towards programme excellence. The role holder will be an active member of the Programme Quality Assurance team and be responsible for reviewing data that the Delivery team provides, ensuring it is robust, verified and that data gap are addressed. The role holder will be responsible for identifying data trends and issues within our school feeding programme.

Key responsibilities & activities

Programmatic Excellence

1. Support the implementation of the programmes Quality Assurance strategies and systems for collecting, tracking, analysing, and reporting on key data within programmes in support of the Programme Delivery Lead and the Quality Assurance Lead

2. Effectively implement field monitoring tools for data quality assurance, including reviewing, consolidating, and reporting.

3. Conduct data quality checks in compliance with our School Feeding Delivery Model (SFDM) and MEL Strategy

4. Conduct checks to ensure that School Feeding Officers are following data collection SOPs and processes.

5. Identify and flag anomalies in data quality through to the Data Quality Assurance Manager

6. Liaise with the Programme Delivery team and the Programme Development team to identify key programme development issues and trends.

7. To represent Mary’s Meals externally as required, and appropriate, with communities, schools and other stakeholders

8. Ensuring that he or she conduct headcounts in selected schools every month as per the required numbers.

9. To ensure that he or she completes all the field-based and desk-based checklists that are required every month.

Essential skills & experience required for this role

• Strong commitment to Mary’s Meals vision, mission and values.
• A university Degree in Monitoring & Evaluation related field or in the social or health sciences.
• Excellent written and oral English skills, fluency in one or more local languages.
• Robust quantitative data collection, analysis and interpretation skills.
• Proven IT skills, including Microsoft Office, including Excel.
• Good attention to detail.
• High analytic skills.
• Ability to work independently, under pressure and meet deadlines
• Experience in the use of cloud-based data management system such as RESCO/Salesforce.
• Valid Motor Bike Riding Licence
• The ability to drive a manual vehicle with a valid non-restricted licence is an added advantage.